I've narrowed down my search to two cameras - models and important specs follow:

Nikon Coolpix 700 -- 2.0+ megapixel & great reviews !!! BUT - no optical zoom

Olympus D450 Zoom -- 3x optical zoom/2x digital zoom & good reviews !!! BUT - only 1280 x 960 resolution.

Decision, decisions. Optical zoom is somewhat important to me. But, so is the ability to print output w/ high enough resolution. Trade-off here I guess. I've narrowed it down to these two cameras mainly due to the sub $450 price on both on the net.

Can you help me sway my decision one way or the other?

Brian

-- Brian (woodcycl@home.com), October 04, 1999

Answers

Will you regret not having optical zoom? Maybe not. More likely, you will cry yourself to sleep every night. :) In this price range I vote for canon A50. The oly has aperture priority and spot metering, the other two don't, if that matters. I think the nikon has a little better image quality, and good macro. The A50 is even smaller than the 700. No 3x zoom 2mpix models in this price range yet.

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), October 04, 1999.